Figures released on Friday by the Metropolitan Opera show that music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin was paid $2,045,038 in the year ending July 2024, a huge leap from his previous $1,307,583.
Yannick is also music director in Philadelphia and Montreal.
General manager Peter Gelb made $1,395,216, virtually unchanged.
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